week#10 Robert S Evans III

Here I go again mixing up the point of view on how I shoot food. This time I choose a bear claw pastry and hot coco. Shot this with natural light. I am very happy with the color and how these two images came out. The second shot of the bear claw was a variation I tried and is my favorite out of the two images

Week 10: Karla: Photographer

So many photos to edit! I've done about six different shoots in the last week and am preparing myself to sit and spend quite a bit of time editing them all in the next few days. This is just one photo from one of the shoots so it's pretty much just a sneak peek.
I think it's funny that I came to Art Center just so sure that I would be a fashion photographer and although I love to photograph people I must say that I have enjoyed photographing food these last 3 months. I'm 7 months pregnant now and shooting food has been a relaxing, creative and yummy experience thus far!

Week #7 Robert S Evans III

I shoot this for a Valentine's Day brief in my food photography class two terms ago. It was a lot of fun for me because I got to finally bring food and people together. The idea was a Night for one. Basically this lady gets stood up by her lover on Valentine's Day after she had planned this night of passion for her and her lover.After a few glass of champagne she decides to not waste the night crying over it, she would partake in the night she had planned out with herself. She ends up discovering a private her-eyes-only sexual fetish with food.

Week #6 Robert S Evans III

I shoot this still life last spring during my first go around in a food photography class at Art Center. The brief was green and we had to use seven different objects with four of them being food. Earlier that week I was randomly given a set of 1:32 ratio of German WWII soldiers. Which I had the strange urge to use for this brief one because they were green and another I thought it would be cool to have then fighting these weird green candy frogs. Then I was off to Whole Foods to partake in one of my newly discovered parts of producing a shoot propping which now for me is at much fun as the actual shoot . I was like a kid in a candy store. I found so much green food it was hard to focus. However I decided that I would build a world out of veggies and have the soldiers epic battle against the alien green frog candies. The shoot was a lot of fun and brought back some childhood memories of dressing in my fathers old military clothes and setting up battles with my friends.

week#5 Robert S. Evans III

This is the last installment for my mannequin hands food project. I was shooting some Cognac this past Monday. I decided to take a dark, moody approach because of it being month of all hollows eve. Not to mention I have been reading Edgar Allen Poe this past month and I was inspired by a couple of his poems/stories. For the first time in this series I was frustrated with my food/beverage. I was having trouble with the liquor being way to dark and not glowing as much as I would have like it to. However as a whole image I am happy in the way it turned out.

Week 6: Karla: Photographer

I'm posting these photos with that "food glorious food" song from the play "Oliver" stuck in my head. My personal goal this week was to photograph some donuts. They're fun, colorful and I got to eat them when I was done shooting them so it was a win win situation. I like color and just can not make a moody brooding photograph to save my life so I tend to go for happier colors and things. It's cool because I feel like regardless of what I shoot it just kind of shows how I feel and most of the time I see things in a positive light. So with that said I'll leave you with some donuts to look at. Next time I'll post another drink photograph that I just shot and have yet to edit. In my last post I mentioned I'd shoot with fake ice and it was horrible so I wound up shooting real ice again. But that's next weeks post, or this weeks post depending on how you look at it ;)

Week #5: Karla - Photographer

This is a photograph of some punch that I took a little over two weeks ago. I'm hoping to add it to my growing food photography portfolio. The ingredients are real and I'm specifically talking about the ice. I was told ahead of time that real ice is very difficult to shoot and I am not so sure about that. I bought plenty of ice and kept it in a cooler so when it started to melt I just put more in. Next week I'll be trying a shoot with fake ice so it'll be interesting to compare and contrast the different types of ice. This is my first attempt at shooting glass and liquid since product photo class a few terms ago. Over all I am pretty happy with how it turned out, I'm interested in photographing more drinks to see how I improve with practice.

Week 4 Robert S Evans III

So this was a metamorphose AD that I collaborated with an Advertising student Christain Chico my ACCD Shoot Sell class. This was a fun project we got the comp Metamorphose were we had to take two objects and merge them to create another object. So we decided to use Hebrew National hot dogs and a Weber grill. After a couple weeks of brain storming and we came up with this answer to our project. This project was a lot of fun, however the problem that accrued while trying to fabricate the grill in the shape of a menorah was the hardest part. Though in the end the final project was most rewarding.

Week#3 Robert S. Evans III

These images are the next installment for my food and mannequin hands series. The top image is an experiment with different colored light as-well-as using a mannequin torso in a Cheddar broccoli soup recipe shoot. The Cheddar broccoli soup images consist of 1 ingredient shot and a recipe shot. Next comes my orange inspired food shoot.

Karla Week #2

This is the first photograph from my venture into food photography. I'm taking Pornchai's food class this term and our first assignment was to photograph tomatos. I've photographed people from the beginning of my time at Art Center so the prospect of photographing a still object was exciting, new and intimidating. Frankly, The idea that I didn't have to hire a makeup artist, hair stylist, clothing stylist or cast a model nearly sent me into a panic. I can honestly say that I'm pleased with the outcome so far and I'm excited to see where food photography might take me.